Pen-holder



(No Model.)

M. J. HUGHES.

PEN HOLDER.

No. 336,856. Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

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NITED STATES ATENT FFICEQ MARSHALL J. HUGHES, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,856, dated February 23, 1886.

Application filed November-4, 1885. Serial No. 181.839. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARsHALL J. HUGHES, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pen-Holders, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure l is a plan view of the holder. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views of the two parts of the adjustable pen-clamp. Fig. 4; is a transverse section taken on the line :0 w in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable holder for receiving two pens for simultaneously producing two parallel lines of the same or different colors.

Myinvention consists in apen-holder handle split at one end,and provided with a clampingscrew for drawing the parts of the split end together, and in angled clamps adapted to receive ordinary pens, and provided with arms inserted in the slot of the pen-handle and secured therein by the clamping-screws.

By the use of my improvement ordinary pens which may be procured in the open market may be employed, and may be readily adjusted so as to produce two parallel lines at any desired distance apart.

The handle A, of any desired form, is provided with a ferrule, B, and with a central slit, 9, in the ferrule end thereof, and furnished with a transverse bolt, (1, arranged to draw the two sides of the pen-holder toward each other. In the slit 9 are received the arms 6 of the pen-clamps 0, each of the arms being provided with a nick in the edge thereof for adjustment with the sides of the bolt 6!, to cause the two pen-clamps to register, and to furnish a pivot upon which they may be turned for adjustment. The arm e of one of the clamps is provided with an extension, f, to facilitate the insertion of the arm into the slit 9, and the opposite arm, 6, is formed with an angle, 0, for the same purpose. The penclampscare formed of semi-cylindrical blocks covered by curved metallic plates h and clamped to the arms 0 by set-screws b, passing through the curved plates and blocks upon one side of the arms into the blocks and curved plates of the opposite side, binding the members of the clamps 0 upon the arms 6. The pen 0 is inserted between the curved plates h and the blocks inclosed thereby, and the pens are arranged to converge, as shown in Fig. 1,with their points separated by a distance equal to the space between the lines to be produced. The arms 0 of the pen-clamps may be turned in the slit 9 0f the pen-handle with the bolt d as a pivot, so as to adjust the distance between the points of the pen, after loosening the bolt 02, by which the sides of the pen-holder are clamped against the arms 6.

Instead of forming the pen-clamps c by means of the curved plates h and the blocks inclosed thereby, it is obvious that I may curve the arms eand return them upon themselves, to form sockets for receiving the ends of the pens. Therefore I do not limit or confine myself to the exact form of pen-clamp herein described.

The pens held in my improved adjustable double pen-holder when used for producing parallel lines of the same color are dipped into the ink and used in the same manner as an ordinary pen; but when it is desired to produce parallel lines of different colors, the pens are charged separately with different-colored inks, preferably by dipping them in my improved inkstand, for which Letters Patent No. 326,118 were granted to me September 15, 1885, in which two compartments for difierent-colored inks are separated by a very thin partition, so that by dipping one pen into one compartment and the other in the other compartment the two pens may be simultaneously charged with different-colored inks.

I am aware that the lower end of a penholder has been provided with grooves to receive supplementary pen-holders, and I therefore do not claim such invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a double pen-holder, the combination, with the handle A, provided with a slit, 9, of pen-clamps 0, having arms 0, inserted in the slit of the handle from opposite sides thereof, and the bolt d, for clamping the arms 6 in the slit of the handle, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture,

a double. pen-holder having the handle A, low the bolt d, the handle A, provided with a provided with the slit 9, the pen-clamps c, ferrule, B, and slit 9, and the clamping-bolt 11, formed of the arms 6, the semi-cylindrical passing through the slit end of the handle and 15 blocks, the curved plates h, and screws clampbinding the sides of the handle upon the arms 5 ing the plates h and semi-cylindrical blocks e, substantially as herein shown and described. inclosed thereby to the arms 6, substantially In testimony whereof I have hereunto set as herein shown and described. my hand in the presence of two subscribing 3. In a double pen-holder, the combination witnesses. of two pen-clamps, 0, provided with arms e e, MARSHALL J. HUGHES.

Witnessesi HENRY SENIOR, Tnos. J MOWILLIAMS.

10 one having the extensionf, entering the slit of the handle above the bolt d, the other having the angle 0, entering the slit of the handle be- 

